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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Nothing says political elite than seeing Scott Walker order
his Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel to declare his past illegal
activity legal. And that's after his march-in-lockstep legislature passed a law allowing campaign coordination with issue advocacy groups, which at the time was illegal.

According to the WSJ story, elites can get off breaking our laws
by just changing it later; “Walker and the Republican-controlled legislature
have since changed the law making the alleged activity legal.”

Attorney General Brad Schimel asked the U.S. Supreme Court
Monday to reject a review of a halted criminal investigation into Gov. Scott
Walker’s recall campaign, Schimel’s filing argues the court should reject
the appeal because Walker and the Republican-controlled Legislature have since
changed the law making the alleged activity legal and prohibiting the use of
secret “John Doe” proceedings in investigating campaign finance violations.

Yes, Schimel offered that argument up to the U.S. Supreme Court. Wow. Skip the legalities, right? And how does prohibiting John Doe investigations of campaign violations help his argument? But the following reason was a head spinner:

“The people of Wisconsin thus made as clear as they possibly
could that they wish to put this unfortunate chapter behind them,” Schimel
wrote.

The “people?” Oh, he means those highly partisan representatives controlling all branches of government. Got it: